Affiliated Centers at Mason

The Center of Excellence in Neuroergonomics, Cognition, and Technology aims to support the US Air Force mission of enhanced human effectiveness in air, space, and cyberspace operations through research in neuroergonomics, technology, and cognition

The Human Factors and Applied Cognition graduate program is a part of the psychology department. The Arch Laboratory is the primary training facility used for research in human factors, cognitive psychology, cognitive neuroscience and neuroergonomics.

The Krasnow Institute for Advanced Study is the home of the sixteen participant Behavioral and Neuroeconomics Laboratory and the functional Magnetic Resonance Imaging (fMRI) scanner. The CSN currently runs virtual world studies and neuroimaging studies in the Krasnow Institute.

Kimberly Goodyear, Carolina Haass-Koffler and David Chavanne. Opioid Use and Stigma: The Role of Gender, Language and Precipitating Events. Drug and Alcohol Dependence, Volume 185, 2018, pages 339-346.

"New brain imaging technologies have motivated neuroeconomic studies of the internal order of the mind and its links with the spectrum of human decisions ... its promise suggests a fundamental change in how we think, observe, and model decision in all its contexts."

Summer 2019 REU

This summer we will run our 3rd annual CSN/IFREE summer workshop for undergraduate students on computational experimental economics. The workshop runs from from June 3 to August 2nd with the week of July 1-5 off for family vacations. The workshop pays a stipend of $4,000 to participants. Funding for the workshop is provided by the International Foundation for Research in Experimental Economics. If you are interested you can learn more here.

Directions and Maps

The center is located on the Arlington Campus in suite 5019 For a map go here.